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NASB | 1 Kings 11:3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Kings 11:3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away [from God]. |
Subject: Does God endorse polygamy? |
Bible Note: Why did you leave parts out? Here is what the commentary actually says: "husband of one wife--confuting the celibacy of Rome's priesthood. Though the Jews practiced polygamy, yet as he is writing as to a Gentile Church, AND AS POLYGAMY WAS NOT ALLOWED AMONG EVEN LAYMEN IN THE CHURCH, the ancient interpretation that the prohibition here is against polygamy in a candidate bishop is not correct..." I am sure that the authors of this commentary would have appreciated you being intellectually honest and not trying to present them as endorsers of polygamy. Secondly, the "qualifications for elders" passages are by no means the nail in the coffin for the notion that God endorses polygamy. Why are you so allergic to responding to my previous posts? Could it be because the word of God properly applied is nothing but a head-on collision for your sinful, lustful lifestyle? --Joe! |